The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-03-10
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
cholera has appeafed in Sicily.

State of siege has been proclaimed at all
bulgarian towns on the Danube.
EX-Alderman O'Neill was taken to Sing
Sing prison to serve out his sentence.
Cotton Seed Oil Trust certificates ale be-
ing largely dealt in in the money market
Two negro incendiaries were hanged at
Sidon, Miss, yesterday by mob.
There is split between the new German
Liberals and Socialists.
Fifteen buildings and contents were de-
stroyed Mt South Boston, Va. Loss, $780,
000.
The Senate has confirmed the nomin0-
ton of Daniel NIagonc as Collector of Gus
toms at New York.
Beedc & Bray, lumber dealers of Mime
apolis, Mimi, have assigned. Liabilities
from 500, 900 to $3.50, 600
The British Parliament has been asked
to grant anotherquarter of million pounds
for the expense of the navy.
The Texas investigation goes monoto-
nously on. 1t will have been completed in
due time for the fall campaign
The National Printers Protective Fra
ternity are in session at Kansas City The
convention will last three days.
In the Texas investigation, counsel for
the prosecution commenced the submission
of evidence in rebuttal.
The compositors on all the newspapers
and job offices in Milwaukee, Wis, went
out on strike for an advance of 5 cents in
the price of composition.
Mr.. Armour and his party arc in the
South with view of establishing cotton
seed Oil mills, in opposition to the American
Cotton Oil Trust Company.
Adams Express Company has extended
its service over the entire system of the
ONO and Mississippi railway, amounting
to upwards of Cps agencies
The hungarian delegation have unani-
mOusly voted urgency for the special mill
tary credit, and referred the matter to the
budget Committee without debate.
The National Zojtung says third dona-
ton of $4,000 has been received from
American Socialists to assist in the election
OF Socialist candidates to the Keichstag.
At Winchester, Va, Sunday night was
one or the seVcrcst nights of the winter,
the thermometer going down to 1G degrees,
with the wind blowing gale.
The Queen of Spain has signed decree
making 70 per cent. reduction in the export
dutles on sugar and tobacco shipped from
Cuba.
General J. J. Finley, of Ocala, Fla, has
been appointed by Governor Perry United
states Senator to succeed the Hon. Charles
w. Jones.
Advices from ST. Eticnnc. France saw
That ~ men are still cntombcd in the Bcath
run collicrics, and that there is no hope of
recovering them.
Fire at Three Mile Bay, Jefferson county,
n. Y, destroyed a large part of the town.
The loss aggregates about $50, 900: insur-
ance $4,000.
The Academy Of Music, New York, was
sold at auction to VIM. b. Dinsmore, Pres
ident of the Adams Express Company, for |
$500, 600. What will be done with it is not |
learned.
The Queen Of ROumana, it is said, frc-
Qucntly delivers private lectures to her |
maids. Other women arc very like the |
Queen, only they do not coniinc their |
lectures to their maids.
Speaker Carlisle is being ,.rged by his
friends to decline the Speak ership next
year and assume the free trade leadership
on the floor, with tho expectation of walk
ing into the White House thereafter
The negro boy who saved five lives in
the Gardiner disaster on the Alabama river
is Bcbc McCaw, Of Mobile He has a
reputation for cool courage, and his recent
hcroism clicitcd high praise from all quar-
tcrs.
Mrs. Edminstcr and son, living six mile,
from Henry, Dakota, left that town on
Friday with horse and sleigh. They
were found Sunday frozen to death ten
rods from the home Of a ncighbOr.
n petition from the merchants and busi-
ness men of Providence, II. l., represent,
ing about $40 O0O, 600, was presented to the
| Rhode Island General Assembly asking for
mo Of IN L.,
The Western Iron Association met at
l'ittsburg, Pa. and rcatlirmcd the card rate
| to the great disappointment of the iron
workmcn, who had anticipated an advance
in the price and corresponding increase
| in wages.
An inccndiary fire occurred at Floyd
court house, Va, destroying the livery sta,
blcs of II. Jet, burning IA horses and a
yoke of oxen, besides Il large quantity of
forage and farming implements. No in
| surancc. Loss not known.
a new trotting association has been or
| ganiZcd at Detroit Michigan. The States
| represented are Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Connecticut, Wisconsin, New York, Kan,
sas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa. Missouri,
Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Dispatches received from Sofia say that
| the troops of the garrison Of Slistria re.
voltcd yesterday evening and pronounced
| against the regency. Troops are marching
| to Silistria from RuStchuk, Varna and
Shumla to Qucll the mutiny.
The steamer Gaelic from China and ia
pan, which arrived at San Francisco Mon
day, reports that a Chinese Junk, bound
from Hainiu for Siam, has been wrecked
and that out of 600 persons, COMPRISING
her passengers and crew, only six are known
to have escaped.
The Tennessee Senate has rejected the
bill apprOpriating 81 800 to aid in the cree
ton by the Southern States of monu-
ment the memory of George Peabody, the
philanthropist. The measure was dis,
cussed at length and defeated by vote of
II to TO-
The New York and Southern Tees raph
Company, successor to the bankrupt South
ern Telegraph Company, was organized
with the following officers President, Jno.
S. Wise, Of Richmond, Va; Vice Presi-
dent, James b. Pace, of RichmOnd Treas
urcr, John It. Moore, of New York.
A peremptory decree has been issued at